I’m Not Really A Study God

Xuecheng, one of the largest port cities on the western coast of the Lu Kingdom, was one of the largest port cities on the western coast of Lu State when he joined the Qi State nationality with more than 200 Xiao Family family members.

Sixteen Xiao Family merchant ship battleships, plus more than a dozen Ventera ducky merchant ships driven by towed or sent sailors, formed a medium-to-higher fleet, and grandiose entered the port of Xue.

The fleet has not yet fully docked into the port, and the entire Xuegang terminal caused a huge sensation. The country of Lu is in Qufu, and the Xiao Family is also one of the most powerful gentry families in the country, but Qufu is a family Land city, therefore, Xiao Family and other Lu Kingdom Great Family, the distribution of coastal commercial power is still mainly coastal port cities.

Xuecheng is the port city with the largest influence in Xiao Family’s sphere of influence, mainly on Lu and Rome routes.

A few days ago, the Xiao Family fleet had just departed from the port, and returned to the port only a few days ago. It also pulled out ten-twenty spoils of war merchant ship?

Even if it’s just some porters on the dock, you can see that this is a big victory for Xiao Family at sea, so many people who work for Xiao Family started cheering excitedly. .

Especially, when a large number of boats were moored and a small group of Xiao Family servants escorted many white prisoners of Ventera Duchy to ashore, this sensational atmosphere was also brought to a small limit.

A large number of people from all walks of life working for Xiao Family cheered and celebrated on the dock.

Before Xiao Jichen went to sea this time, when they returned from Rome last time, they had already fought Ventera Duchy on the way, and both sides lost a lot. This time Xiao Family returned with great fanfare. , It is indeed easy to stimulate people’s hearts.

Of course, amidst the cheers of the crowd, there are also many silhouettes who have heard the news, full of tension and worry. Fighting will always kill people, even if Xiao Family wins a big victory… there may be many family members. The servant died.

Those who died in the family slaves, to the Xiao Family of Nuo Da, are just a number, representing their family slaves. One or a group of them are missing, which can be allocated to specific families. The meaning is completely different.

The noisy atmosphere lasted for a while. Xiao Jichen took the elite family members into the Xiao Mansion of Xuecheng and said to his protagonist grandiosely, “this Young Master did what he said and did it this time. The pension is five times for the war dead and three times for the wounded. You should pay it as soon as possible, and be sure to do your best.”

It’s natural to take care of things as a happy promise.

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An hour passed, in a civilian area in Xuecheng, when the steward took a few families and knocked on the door of a small courtyard, he calmed down. Facing the middle-aged man who opened the door, “Zhao Sheng, this time we went to sea, our Xiao Family caravan encountered Vintra Duchy pirates ambush. Unfortunately, your kid died in battle, but the Second Young Master Bodhisattva Heart gave it to Zhao Shunwu. Double the pension, so thank you.”

Zhao Sheng is Zhao Shun’s father.

At that time, Zhao Shun was willing to sell her life as a slave, because the mother was seriously ill. The younger brother was young and the father was too busy to work alone. Finally, he signed a contract to sell his body to help his mother cure his illness with the money he sold. Many of the money he earned from running the sea in Xiao Family in 1988 was also taken home to support his family.

As soon as he opened the door, Zhao Sheng just slumped on the ground, not knowing what to say for a while.

Following a housekeeper, he was furious when he saw this. Just about to scold him, he was stopped by a wave of his hand and dropped a silver bag with him. “Okay, this money is enough. It’s been a few years since you Zhao Family, and he died unjustly. When your second kid grows up and wants to avenge his big brother, I welcome him in the Xiao Family fleet anytime.”

With these words, the manager turned around and left.

Zhao Shun is just one of the more than 200 servants who died in the battle.

He doesn’t have time to spend too much time in this house.

Until the steward disappeared without a trace, Zhao Sheng cried and grabbed the silver bag. He didn’t know what mood he was in to open the bag, and count the 20 taels of silver.

Zhao Sheng, a middle-aged man with gray hair, is crying even more heartbreaking. 20 taels of silver is indeed a good fortune, at least for a small family like him In terms of it, it is a fortune.

If you only look at the amount of silver and don’t compare prices, it doesn’t make much sense.

The key to the value of silver liang depends on purchasing power and price level. If it is in Qi State, one stone is only two silver, and one or two can buy five stones, which is almost 500 catties. If one person eats one catty of rice a day, one silver taels can eat for more than a year.

But the country of Lu will not work. The islands of Lu are small and there are few plains on the islands. The land is not so fertile. The local staple foods such as rice can barely support the people of the country. Most people eat the staple food. Not full, here more depends on trade, fishing, etc. to provide food.

The price of rice is only one stone for one or two here, about one hundred catties, five times that of Qi State.

20silver taels, if you buy rice, only 20 shi.

This is still five times the benefit!

In other words, the sailors and servants who run into the sea are killed in battle under normal circumstances. They are just four or two pensions, which are worth 400 kilograms of rice.

At this moment, Zhao Shun, who is registering to join Qi State, can receive ten acres of fertile land, three crops a year, and don’t care about the seeds, one acre and one crop is two stones, two hundred catties. An acre of fertile land can easily weigh about 600 kilograms of rice a year. How about ten acres? ?

The good son died like that, in exchange for a five-fold comfort, should Zhao Sheng cry? Of course he wanted to cry, but he also knew that in the Lu State, those who were regularly enrolled in Lu State only burned 5 taels of silver after the war. It is said that the number of soldiers on the Tang Empire list is only 20 taels for burning silver. As a small country, Lu is a small country, of course there is no way to compare it with the empire.

Don’t look at the amount of silver burned and buried by Lu’s officers and soldiers than Xiao Family… The question is, will the Shangguan be deducted by the Shangguan after their pensions are burned and buried in silver after the actual enrolled officers and soldiers of Lu are killed? Those deductions are simply the norm, and no deduction is a miracle.

With deductions layer by layer, if the officers and soldiers burned and buried the silver, it would be good to be able to fall into the hands of family members.

Finally, Zhao Shun has been sold as a slave! Life is Xiao Family, and death is Xiao Family ghost. Even if Xiao Family doesn’t burn or bury silver after his death, the outside world will say nothing wrong.

What is a slave? He was beaten to death by his master for no reason, and the government ignored him.

If Zhao Shun, Zhao Sheng’s eldest son, is an officer and soldier of the State of Lu, his family can get 2silver taels after death, which is already very good. Now, Xiao Family obviously can not give this 20 taels. Buried the silver, but gave it, and has not deducted it…

Should he be grateful to Xiao Family? ?

Zhao Sheng sat on the ground and cried heartbroken while clutching the silver two in the silver bag, but he didn’t know whether he should hate or say something else.

He certainly didn’t thank him. His son died for Xiao Family. How could he thank him? But it seems to hate does not raise. Compared with the official residence of the State of Lu, Xiao Family is doing very well.

The cry was getting louder and louder. When a middle-aged woman and a fifteen-sixteen-year-old boy came out of the courtyard, this was Zhao Shun’s mother and younger brother.

After the two learned about the specific situation, they were also in grief, and there was a sense of extremely confused powerlessness.

Yes, it’s just powerless.